skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, interesting. I love the learning cycle. If I wasn't constantly learning new tools and tech then I would get really frustrated with my job.
There are multiple types of taxes.

If you're selling a product/service then where you're servers are located can matter for state sales tax collection. For instance Texas considers databases warehouses for state tax reasons, which creates "tax nexus" a term of art in taxation with Texas. Once tax nesus has been created then you would have to collect texas state sales tax which is 8%+ (check rates) for everything you sell in state, and if you don't collect it from customers when you sell it you still owe it to the state and can't go back to the customers to get it!

Now Amazon does everything they can to not collect state sales tax, thus most of the AWS bits are in states that avoid the collection of state sales tax.

All I can say is that it's a lot cheaper to spend money on an hour or two of an experts advice before you do something than to fix a mess later. If you're in startup mode it sucks, but may be required.
yeah that would be great but i dont got 60 REAL friends this i can count on one hand ;)
Thanks for the feedback.

- Like the idea od removing what you don't like

- I hear on fixing the bar.

Again, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts
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not really no. Compare to how many humans use the web or are simply connect to the internet, now that's impressive.

But knowing that many humans use the internet as a transport to a walled garden aware of their IRL identity and holding captive a heap of their personal data, this is frightening.
>One of the reviewers argued that it was the hardest book to read because 'and' was the most used word in the book.

I think the author took this way to literally. Granted, it inspired some fun (albeit odd and basic) data analysis. But the point of the reviewer isn't about word counts but about style and pace. That, narratively, the Silmarillion just felt like it continued on and on without clear sections of rising and falling action or significant breaks. Sentences were long and atmospheric, rather than short, quick and active.
it's a nice science experiment, but parallelization has its limit. there are very few examples of (non mathematical) algorithms that can be parallelized to 256 cores...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:AmdahlsLaw.sv...
Reading through all the comments has reinforced my original comment that this kind of "bring it on" passion is heavily correlated to geo-location, culture, industry and day-to-day grind that one is put through.

>> Monetising that is generally harder

Tell me all about it! So, I've heard of elephant graveyards and jet graveyards... Now, where do all those grizzled, veteran (old) programmers go away (other than into management)?

:)
Thanks for joining in. I love that explanation too :)
You are absolutely right in that it is exactly like cash, and for transactions that are exactly like cash I think Bitcoin is great. But how much commerce is done online now? How big is Amazon.com? How many other online merchants exist?

If Bitcoin's ambitions are only to replace physical cash transactions, then sure, it works. (and that's no small success!) But if we are talking any kind of online transaction with delayed gratification, then trust is required, as is a recourse when things go wrong.
I'm in Boston too. Although I can't really consider myself a solo founder, I have just started working on something. Would love to catch up if you're around. I have a day job at the moment, so I'm working on my idea after hours...
There is an "old fashion sign up" right below..
Good to hear having read many cases of somebody filming themselfs, uploading and finding somebody claiming copyright automagicaly against there video.

Be interesting to see how such situations improve.
What's Yahoo!'s numbers?
Maybe not for large-scale web applications, but as webserver for a small blog or as a proxy server, or even just an Icecast Server for some friends, why not?

The GPU would be mostly idle in these cases, as Servers don't usually run a Graphical Interface, which would mean more RAM for the system.

All in all, this might well be an Application the RPI is more suited for than functioning as a media center.
The first rule of banking is you HAVE to get your principle back. I worked at Capital One and with 30% and fee's for everything you can lose money, key is getting paid back.
Banks will loan money for working capital, if your startup needs a lot of working capital to finance inventories etc. banking might work.
Trust is a big problem for any peer to peer situation. eBay, Airbnb, and Paypal all had to figure out ways to jumpstart trust in their communities - if Bitcoin can do the same, then the potential is huge.
on my Android i use Opera too!
dont get me wrong
i really like opera.

but on the Desktop i dont know why but at this moment Chrome is for me my favourite browser.

everytime when opera gets a new major release i test the version and opera next too.
Great post, I love the thinking out loud thought process portions.

Some suggestions: try removing stopwords (the, and, etc.), it'll bring out more variation on the analysis. Particularly in the circular graphs.

Try unique n-gram analysis, I suspect that will show something interesting. At the very least 2-gram (bigram/digram) analysis might show something cool.

Some other interesting comparative measures, since the author already has all of the tokens, try the Jaccard index between book pairs to look for similarity. (may even want to break the books down into major sections: e.g. LOTR can be viewed as both 3 and 6 books.

Some others to try, sentence length, word length, distribution of tf-idf scores, etc. etc.

fun fun!
[sorry; digression]

what is it about current sites that completely breaks text selection? is it something to do with web fonts? is it a bug in chrome (linux)?

for some strange reason i unconsciously select text on the screen as i read it. i've noticed that recently on many sites - this one included - i either fail to select anything, or select an area of the screen that is only vaguely connected to the text layout.

i'm pretty sure this isn't click interception. is anyone else seeing this? i guess i should poke around and see if i can find a bug report....

[edit: this seems to be the same thing - http://css-tricks.com/forums/discussion/14750/text-selection...]

[edit2: i looked at chrome's bug list and there are hundreds of text selection bugs. i can't work out if this particular one is known or not.]
Academia can be incredibly lucrative for rockstar grant writers, leaders in scientific fields, and authors.

These folks typically don't command astronomical salaries (though they do get paid much, much more handsomely than you'd imagine). Rather, some of them publish bestsellers (and demand the university's help in getting access to leading magazines, publishers, press, etc.). Some of them start their own labs, companies, or institutions that are funded by the schools. Some of them clean up on the lecture circuit. Some researchers -- especially in biomedical fields -- make fortunes (for both their universities and themselves) by selling or licensing patents to private enterprise.

For instance, I'm a writer by hobby. As such, I tend to hang around a lot of other writers (note: I don't recommend this). A common complaint among writers is that writing doesn't pay well. And, on average, that's true. But the world of writing isn't a neat, Gaussian distribution of income. It's a power-law distribution. Most writers are lucky to clear $50k a year in academia, or working for a large and respectable publication. But Malcolm Gladwell earns well north of $10 million a year. Michael Lewis probably makes even more. And don't even get me started on fiction. The woman who wrote "50 Shades of Grey" makes, on average, $3 million a week. J.K. Rowling is a billionaire. Stephen King is probably a near-billionaire. That guy who crapped out "The Da Vinci Code" could just about afford to purchase the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, were he so inclined.

Writing, like academia, is an all-or-nothing sport. There tends to be a very small slice of outsized winners, and a very large slice of abject losers. I don't mean "winners" and "losers" in a pejorative sense. I mean it in the sense that the pie is divided very, very, very unevenly. The average is very low, but the high end is quite high.

This is in stark contrast to, say, i-banking -- wherein a small proportion make an outlandish amount of money, but everyone else still makes a really large chunk of money.
I love programming too, but I agree, high stress programming for other people is what you do early in your career not late.
Found it -- "Yahoo! branded sites reach approximately 700 Million unique users per month." [1]

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[1]: http://www.quora.com/How-many-unique-visitors-are-there-to-Y...
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How many unique visitors are there to Yahoo each month?
It's not a matter of doing something useful with the ship, it's all about making enough pain for the lender until they payup.
> not really no.

Please stop it.
Romney is comparing money loaned ($90 billion) to money spent ($2.8 billion). As an investor Romney knows the distinction; as a politician he knows that many voters will not.
Nokia sounds like it has great maps, also LOVE the layout of m.theatlantic.com. First article in a long time I could actually look at without feeling like I have ADHD. I'm going to start trying to add a m. in front of domains I read!
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> No sense of spin.

What?! FTA: we expect Tesla to become cash flow positive at the end of next month.

However, given that we do have a global supply chain and that floods, fires, hurricanes or earthquakes can cause supply chain interruptions and halt production, we thought it would make sense to raise capital to protect against such an event.

Translation: "So we expect to be cash-flow positive, we won't spend the money that we raised, but we'd thought we'd go ahead and dilute the shareholders, you know, just for insurance."

I believe actions not words. The actions are: He raised money and diluted. You don't do that when you are flush with cash.
Weird, this is just a Posterous blog, so we aren't (consciously) doing anything fancy. Selection works for me on Chrome on OS X for what it's worth.
> if Bitcoin can do the same

You assign agency where there is no entity.
I'm happy for you. But sooner or later it gets to you. No one can say when/how/why, but it does. Happens to the best, happens to everyone else a little sooner. Until then, enjoy the ride. :-)
So don't keep your coins in an exchange - store your keys locally, offline.
You bring two very important points. I agree that creating the right community and the right precedent is Key, but I don't think you need to be closed in order to achieve this. On the contrary, I think one needs to build a system that cana achieve that And be open. From our point a view, is actually an imperative: we Must be able to do it. We simply don't like close, invite only systems. The reasons probably will fit better in another thread.

With regards to managing signal to noise: 100% agree. Figuring out how to slice and dice the content so that you see what matters to You is our number one "tactical" objective. It is actually a hard problem, but one that gets easier as you come to understand the content being created and once you can benefit from enough liquidity to slice and dice at will.
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That exactly what I need for my brand. Instragram is getting so big!!
Great story about a startup just getting stuff done in it's infancy. Who are their major competitors now?
Have fun with it! This seems like a great example to encourage further analysis because you still don't have a testable quantitative hypothesis for why it was harder to read. Makes me want to start coming up with metrics, too! Of course there's a big list of readability metrics, but it's way more fun to discover them on (y)our own. That said, I too was a little surprised when you had a heading titled "The classic graphs" without actually having perspective in the field for what would be classic.
To be fair, that's mostly solved by keeping your bitcoins on your own machine/in cold storage. Buy/sell a little at a time, never keep a lot of money on any (one) exchange/wallet, and so on.

(I'm very skeptical of bitcoin, but if this were the only problem, it would be worth working around it. At least for me, but then I know/like digital security...)
loceng your comment falls directly into the "Drinking the Kool Aid" bucket. If Tesla was such a sure thing then their stock price would reflect that. It doesn't because people who assess it still see a lot of risk to go along with a lot of upside. So it's fair to ask "If you're taking a reduced salary in exchange for stock options how likely is it that you'll be rewarded?" Right now the jury is out. It's important to remember that Tesla has no real competition to their core market right now. Mid to High end electric cars. Once they prove out the concept they'll face stiffer competition. I do hope they'll succeed and think Musk is one of the greatest visionaries and innovators of our time. That doesn't mean you don't get to ask hard questions around execution and competition.

As to the OP and original thread I think the question would be "Do a Google search on your four or five favorite startups/companies around "X working environment" Does Tesla feel disproportionately represented by negative comments or inline with the others relative to age and size. EVERY hard charging company has disgruntled folks. It's a question of proportionality I think.
Rough numbers for popular web mail services.

GMail ~425M
Hotmail ~350M
Yahoo ~300M

(http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statist...)
Yeah, once I looked at the numbers a bit I figured it out. There's also the fact that the Times grades 7.5% of their rankings on international scholarship... which instantly docks most of 7.5% from almost all state and national universities :-( while rewarding those few institutions with the name-brand cachet to attract massive international attention.

I do feel that what's actually bad about that criteria is that it rewards universities for attracting international students who pay the full sticker price at the cost of local students who receive subsidies and scholarships. Spending my undergrad watching UMass Amherst do more and more to get out-of-state and international students just for the money did not feel that great.
Nuances matter? Yes, when I am doing love letters...
I have also had this happen to me and a friend. We have both calls recorded and the numbers logged, is there anywhere we are supposed to send these reports?
My father worked with his hands for his entire working life; at the time, he tells me, he worked on the U.S. Coast Guard Eagle more than anyone else (such as replacing the entire decking, etc). It's something that he's extremely proud of and something he can actually show his grandchildren.

On the other hand, I build things that are, for the most part, abstract and virtual. I enjoy what I do because it allows me to be creative using technologies and tools that I enjoy working with. (And I really enjoy building entire applications from scratch, so much so that I will be creating businesses to really scratch my itches.)

I'm proud that an application that I built half a decade ago is still being used. But, for the most part, most of my work has a limited life-span. Is that so bad?
And that flaw is compounded by subtly differing syntaxes among implementations, e.g., vim, python, grep, egrep.
Would you mind sharing the the "few other wonders"?

I've been able to pull many programming lessons from the other activity I enjoy, woodworking. When I first started, I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of items in catalogs and stores. I didn't know where to begin!

And then I discovered Japanese woodworking, and traditional woodworking, and people like James Krenov and Roy Underhill.

It is impressive what people have built with a small set of simple, sharp tools.

I love seeing these gems, regardless of the domain!
"At its roots, Bitcoin is based on some rather clever mathematics, ironically the same primitives that keep our credit cards secure when buying things online." What is he talking about? SSL? What about credit cards is encrypted?
How many log in occasionally out of boredom, stare at the newsfeed for a few seconds, sigh, and log out?
Maybe they should unionize.
Yep, SSL.
Ah such tales are so entertaining. There was a brief period here in New Zealand when I'd receive a few of these kinds of calls. Folks in my Computer Science class considered it a badge of honor to receive a call and troll the scammer. It's been a while since I received any calls and I guess thats a good thing.
I'm 51, and having a blast.

I'm still learning. I'm an ACM member and read at least a paper a week from one of the journals. I keep trying to improve my skills. (A couple months ago I realized I hadn't done much work with trees in a few years, so I spent a week going through tree balancing algorithms from several books. It was fun).

Hardest thing: Having to learn new stuff that isn't designed right. I'm going through a fair amount of that now. Having to move in with a large, not very well designed system and make serious additions to it is . . . irritating.
What kind of dev practices do you use? Would be interesting if certain habits keep coding enjoyable.
Spotify, Dropbox and Linode.
The Forgotten Mapmaker: Nokia Has Better Maps Than Apple and Maybe Even Google
Haskell: Simon Peyton Jones, Simon Marlow, Duncan Coutts...
Have to agree that this doesn't prove anything. It is only one local contest. The title is very misleading.
This may be of some interest to you: http://lfw.org/python/rxb.py -- it hasn't caught on since 1996 though.

I've seen some swear to OMeta which is the parser used in the VPRI "simple OS" product, powerful enough to implement a bare-bones TCP/IP implementation as essentially drawings; http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software...
How changing a single word increased click through rate by 161%
There's a big hole in the ad-industry's privacy initiative.
Zorbo provides a good answer: Focus. Both in what the Tool does and also what it is used for; to wit, we created Storylane to build a library of human experiences and opinions. We created Storylane to focus on what matters. This is partly achieved by the tool itself and how it works, partly by the community and how is being collectively crafted. The key operative word here is actually "being" as in we have been doing this for a couple of weeks and the focus that I am describing is pretty much in the making
Best Practices for Scientific Computing
Selection works as usual (e.g., wonkier than I would like, but not too bad) on Firefox 10 on OS X.
"Ad industry privacy initiative" is like "defense department pacifism initiative."
What's the percentage of (younger) Western adults not using Facebook?
I almost closed the tab right away because the text only started below my fold. The 4 graphics fit the screen perfectly so I assumed that was all. Make sure you scroll!
That's pretty much it.

I'm one of those guys who comes to Hacker News, reviews what others have built, and immediately thinks 2 things:

- That is so cool!
- So what?

Like most others, I love playing around with widgets and technology just for fun and to see what happens. But the satisfaction from this is usually short lived.

I liken playing around with techology to running around and having lots of good sex with strangers. It's fun and it feels great, but sooner or later, you'll want something more substantial. For me, that requires the satisfaction of others. (This applies to both programming and sex.)
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From what I see, google has the same map for this crossroad, but a different satellite view.
Sensational title that misrepresent the results of a competition with limited (albeit high quality) participants. There is limited information of general value in this link.
Maybe he lives in Canada. :)
I want to do exactly what I'm doing now in seven years. Like several stories, I drifted out of programming and into various management roles over the past few years. I'm super-fortunate to be out of Excel and Word and back into a command-line and VIM.

As a side note, I work with a well-known researcher/developer in his 70's, and it's like working with Yoda. There is so much to learn from him.
> for some strange reason i unconsciously select text on the screen as i read it.

I have the same condition, selectitis. Drives the people around me mad when I'm clicking loads and I don't even notice. And websites that do things on select like pop up a definition or search box are really irritating to me.
Truthfully, I have purchased about 4-5 things with bitcoins, both digital and physical products, and got stiffed EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Yeah, go ahead and downvote me, but it's the truth.
Right, well that's why I mentioned it. This is an impedance mismatch between our systems. PSN billing is based on account affiliation, MUBI geofiltering based purely on IP.

I'm not sure if they verify that you are in the UK when you create a UK PSN account or if it just requires a UK credit card, but at any rate, once you have it, you can use it anywhere in the world. This conflicts directly with MUBI's licensing rights where we have different film rights in each country and can only stream certain films with certain subtitles in different countries. Because we are integrated with PSN billing and we have a PPV option this makes it impossible to support a foreign account because the user would be paying the wrong amount, in the wrong currency, and this would not meet our agreements with rightsholders. This is just one of many thorny issues (don't get me started on sub-regions like Isle of Man which have the same PSN store despite different ISO country). Technically the gap could be bridged, but the sheer weight of the logic in the code and also for our accountants to sort out is not justifiable.

However, the essence of our service is that if you buy a subscription from us you can use it anywhere in the world. Currently for PS3 that means you have to buy it from us and not from Sony, and also you do have to contact us to re-affiliate your MUBI account with a different PSN account if you move. We have plans to improve that so you can have multiple PSN accounts affiliated with a single MUBI account though that itself is also a significant engineering initiative that has not made it to the top of the priority list yet. As imperfect a solution as that is, once set up it will actually work even for people who regularly move between multiple countries, and I believe we are ahead of any premium content streaming company in that regard.
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I think it's more likely to show that Facebook's growth has been faster than in 2006. People who just started using the site obviously have less friends in general than people who have been for awhile.
Looks really nice, very readable. However, I want a python version!
Until they get hacked, and if history is any guide, they will get hacked.
A property search engine in the UK
It's like selling water and extracting all the H2O before.
s/latitude/longitude/.

No arguments on the substantive points, although I am wary of software misinterpreting a time in an instant message, and therefore converting it in a way that doesn't make sense to either of the participants.
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